DISPOSITIF THERAPEUTIQUE

English translation: therapy / therapeutic resources

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Sorry, I put this in a note to individual answerers but not in the original question, which I should have done. This is a subheading, which reads, in its entirety, "Le dispositif thérapeutique, ce séducteur...."
I could put something like: "therapy or seduction?" or 'therapy as a tool for seduction' or 'therapeutic solution - or seduction?'

Explanation:PEP Web - Sexual Abuse in the Therapeutic Setting: What Do Victims ...
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As a victim of sexual abuse by a psychotherapist and as one who has, over the past ... “It's part of the set-up of powerful dependency and isolation,” says ...
pep-web.org/document.php?id=PI.017.0329A

"dispositif": a set of tools , instruments , devices etc. "disposed", arranged in a particular way to perform a particular function ..."dispositif d'alarme", "dispositif hydraulique" etc. ..."dispositif thérapeutique" is, in general, used to mean "therapeutic strategy" receiving operational , material form...In this context , I think, it's the whole "machinery" that "envelops" , embraces the patient as soon as he gets into it and under whose spell he falls...It's an institution with its symbols ( e.g the all knowing and all benevolent doctor with his/her uniform) , mysterious language, procedures, rituals , etc....